From
a friend in Canada – “Sounds like a warning about his
second-term plans to me.”

From
a friend in Atlanta –

Sounds to me like a truncated thought.Maybe what he really wanted to say was this: "I want to appreciate those of you who
wear our nation's uniform for your sacrifice ... but to tell you the truth, I just can't seem to do it.After all, what is there to appreciate?I once wore that uniform
myself, and I didn't sacrifice diddly!"

Ah
well.

Four
more years.

Consider
also these classics Weisberg has collected -

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the—the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful,
free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."—Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003

"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace."—Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life
of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things."—Aboard
Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances."—Washington,
D.C., May 29, 2003

"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein,
and his willingness to terrorize himself."—Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003

''I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe—I believe what I believe
is right."—Rome, July 22, 2001